Couldn’t trust the rumours around Hilton, despite them coming true and sketchy Company’s House record, but we should definitely believe in these. The club don’t need to confirm anything about Butterfield’s wage details in these negotiations. If he wasn’t part of Butler’s plans, he could have just been released, but this is hardly scandal of the century.
Pretty sure I said this earlier up the thread. Maybe Butler would like to have kept him, but wasn’t prepared to break the new wage structure.
Interestingly, it’s possible that (say) Clunan is still going to be on the same wage as last season as his contract hadn’t expired… and Butterfield would have had to take a drastically reduced wage. He’d have been on ‘coat according to cloth’ cash while a lesser player remained on Disney money.
Maybe that’s where there was also a bit of a sting in this for him, too.
